REQUEST FOR EXCEPTION TO SIS LEAVE ACCUMULATION POLICY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP95-00535R000300130022-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 12, 2013
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: February 13, 1980
• Content Type: MEMO

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MEMORANDUM FOR:
VIA:
SI-AT FROM:
13 February 1980
Harry E. Fitzwater
Director, Personnel, Policy, Planning, and Management
John E. Koehler
Deputy to the DCI for Resource Management
Director, Policy Guidance Office
Resource Management-Staff
SUBJECT: Request for Exception to SIS Leave Accumulation
Policy
1. One of the incentives for participation in the Senior Intelligence
Service is the opportunity to accumulate leave above the previous 240
hour.maXimum. The DCI established as a condition for the accumulation of
this ,additional leave the requirement that members of the SIS take at least
80 hours of leave per year. The individual who fails to take the.minimum
of 80 hours of leave forfeits the difference between 80 hours and the num-
ber of hours taken.
2. The implementation of this policy as stated has resulted in cir-
cumstances for the undersigned which I believe were unintended and contrary
to the intent of the DCI when the decision was made to adopt this policy.
These circumstances are outlined below:
Date joined RMS: 27 February 1979
Leave hours transferred: 0
Leave hours accumulated, 1979: 142
Leave hours taken: 46
Leave hours forfeited: 34 (80-46)
Leave balance forwarded: 62 (vice 96)
3. As a member of the Resource Management Staff for only 10 months,
my opportunity to accumulate leave was limited. As a new member of the
Staff my incentives for taking.leave were not great since I was anxious
to learn my new responsibilities as quickly as. possible. The announcement
of this provision of the SIS in November and the duties of my office ef-
fectively precluded my taking leave to meet the 80-hour minimum during the
months of November and December.
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SUBJECT: Request for Exception to SIS Leave Accumulation Policy
4. I do not believe that the implementation of the SIS was intended
to penalize newly joined members of either RMS or the Agency. I request.
that an exception to policy be made and that the 34 hours of leave for-
feited be restored. - I also suggest that you consider amending the SIS
leave policy as it applies to newly joined members of the SIS (less than
one year at the end of the leave year) to provide them the choice of ac-
cumulating leave up to 240:hours or accumulating leave beyond 240-hours
as now provided in the. SIS.
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